The Wisdom of Rumi

Jalauddin Rumi is perhaps the most widely known Muslim poet in the world. Even after the passage of almost a thousand years his poems and writings are avidly read by people all over the world. In fact, today in the West, he is the most widely read poet among both Muslims and non-Muslims.

It is what the Prophet referred to when he said, 'The believer sees with the Light of Allah.'

When the believer looks with Allah's Light,

he sees all things: the first and the last, the present and the absent.

For how can anything be hidden from Allah's Light?

And if something is hidden, then it is not the Light of Allah.

Therefore the meaning of revelation exists, even if it is not called revelation.

Souls

Your true home is the seventh stage of spiritual growth, Illiyyun,Reached through purification and peacefulness.There, you are still in your body,And yet a living Master of the Essence.

Love's Call

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?We have gone to heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,And now we will go back there, for there is our country.We are higher than heaven, more noble than the angels:Why not go beyond them? Our goal is the Supreme Majesty.What has the fine pearl to do with the world of dust?Why have you come down here? Take your baggage back. What is this place?Luck is with us, to us is the sacrifice!Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean--the ocean of the soul.Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean--the ocean of the soul.How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?No, we are the pearls from the bosom of the sea, it is there that we dwell:Otherwise how could the wave succeed to the wave that comes from the soul?The wave named 'Am I not your Lord' has come, it has broken the vessel of the body;And when the vessel is broken, the vision comes back, and the union with Him.

Allah

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but Hewas not there; I went to the Temple of theHindus and to the old pagodas, but I could notfind a trace of Him anywhere.

I searched on the mountains and in the valleysbut neither in the heights nor in the depths was Iable to find Him. I went to the Ka'bah in Mecca,but He was not there either.

I questioned the scholars and philosophers butHe was beyond their understanding.

I then looked into my heart and it was therewhere He dwelled that I saw Him; He wasnowhere else to be found.